Strong water absorption in the dayside emission spectrum of the planet HD 189733b

Nature

Volumn 456, Issue 7223, 2008, Pages 767-769

  Grillmair, Carl J ^a   Burrows, Adam ^b   Charbonneau, David ^c   Armus, Lee ^a   Stauffer, John ^a   Meadows, Victoria ^d   Van Cleve, Jeffrey ^e   Von Braun, Kaspar ^f   Levine, Deborah ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MODEL VALIDATION; PHOTOMETER; PLANET; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; WATER VAPOR;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENT; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; INFRARED RADIATION; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 57649135132     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07574     Document Type: Article

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